Whether the state, Cork County Council ( I know, it's doubtful, boy
) or unnamed others choose to buy Rory Gallagher's guitar or not, I think we all need to take a look at some relevant facts.
1. It is 29 years since the great man's death. Talk of setting up a Rory Gallagher Museum in Cork ought to have begun decades ago with his original following alive and the media interested.
2. Throughout RG's career, his brother, Donal, managed his bookings, recording deals and general finances as well as his everyday arrangements.
3. After death, it appears that Donal Gallagher was not merely the trustee of the Rory Gallagher Estate (the legal entity paid intellectual property royalties earned on performing, recording or publishing work created by RG) but also the salaried manager of this entity.
4. It appears that Donal Gallagher never engaged in any significant employment outside of his employment as manager of the Rory Gallagher Band or as trustee & manager of the Rory Gallagher Estate and companies set up to handle its revenues. This is despite the fact that a largely passive role of managing an intellectual property earnings would allow full-time employment at other matters.
5. Rory Gallagher's music has reportedly sold ~ 30 million albums between 1968 and 1995.
6. Since RG's death, the proliferation of CD as the preferred media of music publishing has occurred; thereafter followed by digital publishing over the web; and in more recent times a comeback by vinyl disc. These changes in media would lead to additional publishing revenue to the RG Estate and its associated companies.
7. The sort of salaries drawn down by Donal Gallagher from his management of RGE associated companies
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would surely allow him to have contributed the famed Stratocaster - as well as the Danelectro Coral elec sitar used for the Philby track, other stringed instruments and saxophones used by RG but sold off some years ago by Donal Gallagher - to have been freely contributed by Donal Gallagher to a museum entity created in the dead musician's memory. If nothing else, such a donation would have saved Donal Gallagher the expense of storing these items securely for years.
8. Donal Gallagher seems to have avoided the misfortunes of drug abuse and broken family that beset many in the music industry.
Public records show him to have married someone with a fine Donegal name of Logue in 1980 and their union was blest with 3 sons and one daughter.
![DG-family.jpg DG-family.jpg](https://www.askaboutmoney.com/data/attachments/8/8978-97ebea9674df9dad2de16051802cf503.jpg)
However, I - and many readers of AAM and Rory fans - will know many households equally presentable on incomes far lower than that enjoyed by Donal Gallagher.
A successful family life doesn't justify any means used to achieve it.
9. When the core relic of a legendary person is put up for sale by public auction with a guide price of €1 million, the question that has to be asked is how and why has it come to this ?
1. It is 29 years since the great man's death. Talk of setting up a Rory Gallagher Museum in Cork ought to have begun decades ago with his original following alive and the media interested.
2. Throughout RG's career, his brother, Donal, managed his bookings, recording deals and general finances as well as his everyday arrangements.
3. After death, it appears that Donal Gallagher was not merely the trustee of the Rory Gallagher Estate (the legal entity paid intellectual property royalties earned on performing, recording or publishing work created by RG) but also the salaried manager of this entity.
4. It appears that Donal Gallagher never engaged in any significant employment outside of his employment as manager of the Rory Gallagher Band or as trustee & manager of the Rory Gallagher Estate and companies set up to handle its revenues. This is despite the fact that a largely passive role of managing an intellectual property earnings would allow full-time employment at other matters.
5. Rory Gallagher's music has reportedly sold ~ 30 million albums between 1968 and 1995.
6. Since RG's death, the proliferation of CD as the preferred media of music publishing has occurred; thereafter followed by digital publishing over the web; and in more recent times a comeback by vinyl disc. These changes in media would lead to additional publishing revenue to the RG Estate and its associated companies.
7. The sort of salaries drawn down by Donal Gallagher from his management of RGE associated companies
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would surely allow him to have contributed the famed Stratocaster - as well as the Danelectro Coral elec sitar used for the Philby track, other stringed instruments and saxophones used by RG but sold off some years ago by Donal Gallagher - to have been freely contributed by Donal Gallagher to a museum entity created in the dead musician's memory. If nothing else, such a donation would have saved Donal Gallagher the expense of storing these items securely for years.
8. Donal Gallagher seems to have avoided the misfortunes of drug abuse and broken family that beset many in the music industry.
Public records show him to have married someone with a fine Donegal name of Logue in 1980 and their union was blest with 3 sons and one daughter.
![DG-family.jpg DG-family.jpg](https://www.askaboutmoney.com/data/attachments/8/8978-97ebea9674df9dad2de16051802cf503.jpg)
However, I - and many readers of AAM and Rory fans - will know many households equally presentable on incomes far lower than that enjoyed by Donal Gallagher.
A successful family life doesn't justify any means used to achieve it.
9. When the core relic of a legendary person is put up for sale by public auction with a guide price of €1 million, the question that has to be asked is how and why has it come to this ?